[TriLUG] VNC/SSH Tunneling speed

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xpra is nice too. Not quite as compressed as NX, but you can just run it
on both sides instead of setting up a whole server, and it only runs the
programs you want instead of an entire desktop, and you can attach or
detach like you were running screen(1).

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Brian Cottingham wrote:
> If you're having a bandwidth/latency problem with VNC take a look at NX[1].
> Rather than just passing screenshots over the network it passes actual X11
> events back and forth, which have a much lower overhead than bitmaps. I've
> found it quite usable over the Internet, and it has all the features you
> could need: connections run over SSH, display resizing, connecting to an
> existing X session, and settings for faster/slower networks.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> [1] http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>  I have a ssh tunnel to my server @home. I'm on a cable modem. I'm
>> wondering if there is a way to speed up the response time?  I've dropped my
>> color depth to 16. I'd like to be able to keep a decent colordepth.
>>
>>
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>> Roy Vestal
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